Imperial Airways Speedbird logo, mainly used in advertising and rarely on aircraft before 1939
Company type
Private
Industry
Air transport
Predecessor
British Marine Air Navigation
Daimler Airway
Handley Page Transport
Instone Air Line
Founded
31 March 1924; 100 years ago (1924-03-31)
Defunct
24 November 1939; 84 years ago (1939-11-24)
Fate
Merged with British Airways Ltd
Successor
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Headquarters
Croydon
,
England
Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. Passengers were typically businessmen or colonial administrators, and most flights carried about 20 passengers or fewer. Accidents were frequent: in the first six years, 32 people died in seven incidents. Imperial Airways never achieved the levels of technological innovation of its competitors and was merged into the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939. BOAC in turn merged with the British European Airways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways.
merged with the British European Airways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways. The establishment of ImperialAirways occurred in the context of facilitating...
customer, ImperialAirways, which had originally developed the requirements to which it was initially ordered and designed. ImperialAirways, and its successor...
with London-bound ImperialAirways. London to Brisbane service commenced on 13 April 1935. ImperialAirways and Qantas Empire Airways opened the 12,754-mile...
Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of ImperialAirways and British Airways Ltd. It continued...
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corporate logo for ImperialAirways. It became a design classic and was used by the airline and its successors – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)...
developed during the early-to-mid 1920s in response to a statement by ImperialAirways that new multi-engined airliners were being sought to replace its single-engined...
The 1933 ImperialAirways crash may refer to 1933 ImperialAirways Dixmude crash in which Armstrong Whitwort Argosy G-AACI crashed with the loss of 15...
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Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways...
Daimler Airway, to form ImperialAirways. List of aircraft of ImperialAirways List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom ImperialAirways enthusiasts'...
operated under the aegis of the British corporation ImperialAirways. Throughout these years, Palestine Airways flew thousands of passengers, its best year being...
the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), which had been formed out of the merger of ImperialAirways and British Airways. The type would be flown...
1934, QANTAS and Britain's ImperialAirways, a forerunner of British Airways, formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA). In December 1934...
to ImperialAirways (later BOAC) as Fiona in 1939. It was scrapped in September 1943. A 1/10 scale model of the Albatross owned by British Airways was...
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originally known, started scheduled flights in 1930 with a service by ImperialAirways via Barton Aerodrome near Eccles, Salford and Castle Bromwich Aerodrome...
specifically developed to fulfil the needs of the British airline ImperialAirways, who sought a new four-engined airliner to serve its African routes...
consolidation. In 1924, ImperialAirways was formed from the merger of Instone Air Line Company, British Marine Air Navigation, Daimler Airway and Handley Page...
War, the airline represented ImperialAirways / British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In 1947, Gibraltar Airways formed a business relationship...
produced, it formed the basis for the successful Avro Anson. In 1933, ImperialAirways issued a specification to Avro, for a light airliner to transport four...
Airways, subsequently renamed British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and Pan American World Airways (PAA) flights from the United States in 1936,...
British Airways Flight 5390 was a flight from Birmingham Airport in England for Málaga Airport in Spain. On 10 June 1990, the BAC One-Eleven 528FL suffered...
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